Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
Page: 42

"I found him much grown; an air of health and gayety about him.
He caressed me greatly (ME GRACIEUSA FORT); afterwards questioned
me about my way of life in Vienna; and asked, if I had diverted
myself well there? I told him what business had been the occasion
of my journey, and that this rather than amusements had occupied
me; for the rest, that there had been great affluence of company,
and no lack of diversions. He spoke a long time to Madam
de Wreech "--

"Wrochem" Schulenburg calls her: young Wife of Lieutenant-General
von Wreech, a Marlborough Campaigner, made a Knight of Malta the
other day; [ Militair-Lexikon, iv. 269.]--
HIS charming young Wife, and Daughter of Madam Colonel Schoning
our hostess here; lives at Tamsel, in high style, in these parts:
mark the young Lady well,--

"who did not appear indifferent to him." No!--"and in fact she was
in all her beauty; a complexion of lily and rose."

Charming creature; concerning whom there are anecdotes still
afloat, and at least verses of this Prince's writing; not too well
seen by Wreech, lately made a Knight of Malta, who, though only
turning forty, is perhaps twice her age. The beautifulest,
cleverest,--fancy it; and whether the peaty Neumark produces
nothing in the floral kind!

"We went to dinner; he asked me to sit beside him.
The conversation fell, among other topics, on the Elector
Palatine's Mistress," crotchety old gentleman, never out of
quarrels, with Heidelberg Protestants, heirs of Julich and Berg,
and in general with an unreasonable world, whom we saw at Mannheim
last year; has a Mistress,--"Elector Yalatine's Mistress, called
Taxis. Crown-Prince said: 'I should like to know what that good
old gentleman does with a Mistress?' I answered, that the fashion
had come so much in vogue, Princes did not think they were Princes
unless they had mistresses; and that I was amazed at the facility
of women, how they could shut their eyes on the sad reverse of
fortune nearly inevitable for them;--and instanced the example of
Madam Gravenitz"--

"Gravenitz;" example lately fallen out at Wurtemberg, as we
predicted. Prayers of the Country, "Deliver us from evil," are now